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Originally Posted by Suzy
Spot on  exactly as I understood it. In the Foxtel show "Visions of the future", presented by Professor Kaku, he went on to say that this model will only work with this amount of dimensions- the others didn't cut it.
You would know this already, but for those who don't, the M theory name was invented by Witton and it stands for "magic".
Did you watch that series Craig? It was on recently. Brilliant! |
Suzy …
I don't know what was up with Kaku lately, he's been coming up with some pretty wild stuff .. I think commercialism may have caught up with him. I did see "Visions of the Future". It was pretty cool, though.
Ed Witten himself says: "that the interpretation of the M can be a matter of taste for the user of the name." In Elegant Universe they interview Witten about this and he says it could be
magical,
mystery (or a few other things), but its all according to taste. I think this is his way of distancing himself from it all .. given that even he says no-one understands it yet. I think he's spent the last few years coming up with new mathematics to deal with the multi-dimensionality of it all. I'd say he's the only one who could probably explain part of it, in our lifetimes.
But aside from the detail, I still don't get this 26 dimensions stuff in boson string theory ..!
Cheers
PS: Thanks for picking me up on my arithmetic 9+1=10, right .. not 11 ? Doh !!
The string theory model doesn't work with anything other than these 11 dimensions.
